Is this coming out of nowhere or did I miss the memo?

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Colleen Kane from the Tribune tweeted it as well, says he had an UCL tear

The glute bone is connected to the, elbow ligament

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Well damn...That would put him out for some (most?) of 2015 as well right?

 

He's arbitration eligible this offseason too.

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"Dan Hayes of CSN Chicago tweets that Jones, who was on the disabled list recovering from a back injury, tore his ulnar collateral ligament while ramping up his rehab from his previous injury."

 

That one sure flew under the radar.

Wow tearing your UCL while rehabbing your back. That sucks.

"Soooooooo, THAT happened." -- Nate Jones

Rip nate jones

"Dan Hayes of CSN Chicago tweets that Jones, who was on the disabled list recovering from a back injury, tore his ulnar collateral ligament while ramping up his rehab from his previous injury."

 

That one sure flew under the radar.

 

Wow. Nate Jones now is going to lose pretty much two full years of baseball. That sucks.

He Gone!

Brutal. Really unfortunate. He has all the makings of being an above average reliever. Tough loss.

Big decision now for the front office whether they want to pay him for another year of non-activity.

Big decision now for the front office whether they want to pay him for another year of non-activity.

 

There's no decision to be made. You don't non-tender that kind of arm. If the Sox are lucky, he's back by July or August of next year, knocks off some of the rust, and is ready to go full time again in 2016.

Big decision now for the front office whether they want to pay him for another year of non-activity.

 

2015 is his first arb eligible year. I wonder if catastrophic injury can be introduced into the procedings?

Chuck Garfien ‏@ChuckGarfien 1h

 

Sorry to hear about Nate Jones. Tommy John surgery. Out 12-15 months. Hope one day we can tell the story of his great comeback.

Well, considering we've always wanted to avoid paying relievers in arbitration since the Jenks years...and we're not even sure if he is going to be capable of being a high-quality 7th and 8th inning set-up guy in 2016, I'd say it's an interesting decision.

 

Since the White Sox have adopted the philosophy that they can turn someone else's junk (Guerra, Noesi, Carroll, Belisario, Putnam, Cleto, Boggs, H.Rodriguez) into a bullpen piece, I'd say it's 50/50 at best they keep him.

 

If he was left-handed and this was Matt Thornton after his first couple of seasons with the Sox, there would be no question about it. Otoh, Nate came up with the White Sox through our system, so there's going to be more of a likelihood to be "loyal."

 

That said, baseball is a business and it's not only a UCL, it's the back issue, which we don't know a whole lot about. Can we be 100% sure his mechanics weren't/aren't going to be thrown off in the future compensating for back issues and putting undue stress on another part of the body. That's basically what happened with the Marlins' young ace, unfortunately.

I wonder if he was lifting weights under someones supervision at the time it happened.

How do we really know it was a back issue and not arm soreness the whole time?

How do we really know it was a back issue and not arm soreness the whole time?

 

exactly either way now is another position to fill.

Robin said last Saturday he was done for year.

There's no decision to be made. You don't non-tender that kind of arm. If the Sox are lucky, he's back by July or August of next year, knocks off some of the rust, and is ready to go full time again in 2016.

 

Not only that, but this has "good Samaritan" Jerry Reinsdorf written all over it.....you know JR probably feels horrible for the kid and will do anything he can do to accommodate him.